Mazón Protests: 243 Days & Eighth Demonstration
The eighth demonstration to demand the resignation of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónfor its “negligent management” of the DANA of October 29 has traveled the center of Valencia this Sunday, in the middle of the first heat wave of the summer, to ask for its march because “It has been 243 days for 243.
On the day when eight months of the tragedy left 228 deaths, hundreds of thousands of affected and millionaire damage, A new protest has taken to the streets of the Valencian capital under the slogan ‘Mazón resignation’ to denounce that the president “has not assumed responsibilities” and that there are still many needs to meet.
Convened by more than 200 social entities, together with the associations of victims and the local reconstruction committees, the demonstration has left for the town hall place after 7:30 p.m., headed by relatives of victims with photos of their deceased, who have been applauded in their path, and posters to claim justice.
The Government Delegation in the Valencian Community has estimated in about 5,000 people the protest attendees, 4,500 according to the Local Police of Valencia.
“We neither forgive nor forget”
After the headboard, the canvas has been shown with the image of the president dressed as a prisoner created by a university student, and posters have been exhibited with phrases such as ‘Neither we forgive nor forget’ or ‘Mazón is not ashamed.’
The president of the association fatalities 29-o, ROSA ÁLVAREZhe said that they are no longer worth the resignation of Mazón: “He would have earned us on October 30, but 243 days later we are no longer worth his resignation, we are worth the jail, and when he is in prison we will consider whether or not we meet him.”
He has asserted that they will continue to manifest “until this man has the dignity of leaving and becoming available to justice,” with cold, with rain or heat wave, Because they have been without their relatives for 243 and Mazón has been “243 days of more”, occupying the site of the Chief of Consell “that should not” and “cannot lead any reconstruction.”
The president of the Association of Vítimes de la Dana October 29, Mariló Grabolí, has indicated that no responsibility has been assumed of what happened on October 29 and that is why They manifest again “for dignity” and to ask for the resignation of Mazón, as well as to remember the importance of emergencies and progress in reconstruction.
During the tour slogs like ‘Mazón resignation’, ‘The president A Picasent’ –In allusion to the Valencian jail – or ‘They are not deaths, they are murders’, and when the end has been reached, in front of the Palau de la Generalitat, ‘Miserable Mazón has shouted, you are the culprit’ and the sound of the alarm that reached the mobiles on the day of the Dana at 20:11 hours has been reproduced.
The march has once again opened the interpretation for Dolçainers and Tabaleters of the melody ‘The procession of memory‘(‘ The procession of memory ‘), a work of tribute to victims composed in 2012 by Ferran Navarro that has become symbolically The music that sounds throughout the tour of these manifestations.
The protest has ended in the Plaza de la Virgen, where it has been claimed that “the struggle for truth and justice does not holiday” and has remembered the 228 fatalities of the Dana, the two workers who died later in the tasks of cleanliness and To the baby of a deceased pregnant eight months that could be recognized as another victim.